Rohan Chand
Rohan Chand is an actor, born 2004.
Child actors rarely get a run of parts this good this early. Rohan Chand's first credit here is Gary Sadelstein in Jack and Jill, an Adam Sandler comedy, and what followed was considerably better than that start would predict.
Bad Words is the film that made people pay attention. As Chaitanya Chopra he plays opposite an adult lead who behaves appallingly toward him for most of the running time, and the whole thing works only because Chand refuses to be pitiable. In the same stretch he was Gulab's young son in Lone Survivor and young Hassan in The Hundred-Foot Journey, one a war film and one a warm drama about food and family, which is a wide gap for a performer that age.
The lead came in 2018 with Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, a Warner Bros. production of the Kipling stories pitched far darker than the animated versions, released instead on Netflix. He also appeared in the Crossfire episode of Homeland and made a cameo in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.
After that the record here effectively stops, which is a common shape for actors who start young. Seven credits is not much of a career yet, and most of them are better than the size of the parts suggests.
Movies (6)
TV (1)
Where to start with Rohan Chand
Nothing else here reaches Bad Words. Start there: it is the sharpest film on this list and the clearest evidence of what he could do at that age, holding long two-handers against an adult lead who is deliberately unpleasant.
Then Mowgli: Legend of the Jungle, the only leading role here. It is uneven, the motion-capture animals sit oddly against the live-action photography, and Chand is the most convincing element in it.
The Hundred-Foot Journey is the gentlest option and a good demonstration of how little he had to do to register. Lone Survivor uses him briefly at the emotional hinge of the film. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a cameo and nothing more. That is a short list, which is honest: this is a child performer's filmography rather than a career retrospective.